Now then.
Everything finally returned to the matter at hand.
The fox demon race.
The You Su Clan, descended from Su Daji.
The Qingqiu Clan of the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Celestial Fox.
Apart from these, the Fox Divine Race had another great clan!
That was the Tushan Clan!
The Tushan Clan.
The Tushan woman.
She was the wife of Yu the Great, one of the Human Race's Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
Back when Yu the Great was taming the floods.
In that era, when humans began marrying and having children in their teens.
He had reached the age of thirty-one.
At a time when many members of the Ancient Human Race were already beginning to grow old.
Yet Yu the Great, busy taming the floods, still did not have a partner.
Then, one day.
As Yu the Great passed through a place called Qingqiu.
He could not help sighing over his lot.
There was no need to spell out exactly what he said.
It was incomprehensible classical language anyway.
Its rough meaning was:
"Ah! I'm really getting anxious. I've been busy with my career, busy with work, and now I'm already thirty-one. The fellow traveling with me was a little younger than me back then, and when we set out together two years ago, he had already married."
"We've been away for two years now. His child should be three months old by now, shouldn't it?"
"Honestly, I've really let my ancestors down. Even now, I haven't produced descendants to carry on the family line."
Something along those lines, anyway.
It had originally been a complaint like that of a resentful woman shut away in her boudoir.
Who would have thought it would actually attract the attention of a mighty deity!
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp..."
Just after Yu the Great